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Michael Atkinson

Description

Professor Michael Atkinson writes regularly for The Village Voice, In These Times, The New York Times, LA Weekly, Sight & Sound, The Believer, TCM.com, Criterion Collection, Time Out New York, The Progressive, The Forward, indiewire, Moving Image Source, Cineaste, Film Comment, and many other publications. He is author of seven books, including EXILE CINEMA: Filmmakers at Work Beyond
Hollywood (SUNY Press), GHOSTS IN THE MACHINE: Speculating on the Dark Heart of Pop Cinema (Proscenium), BLUE VELVET (British Film Institute), the novel HEMINGWAY CUTTHROAT (St. Martin's Press), and the debut volume of poetry ONE HUNDRED CHILDREN WAITING FOR A TRAIN (Word Works). He is the Co-writer of the network pilot BABYLON FIELDS (NBC/20th
Century Fox). He is currently finishing a novel, THE SAINT OF AFTER MIDNIGHT, and working on the critical work LOST IN XANADU: The Secrets of CITIZEN KANE and the Ordeal of the American Dream (SUNY Press).

Specialties

Film history and appreciation, poetry, creative writing, screenwriting.

Honors/Awards

Recipient, New York Foundation for the Arts fellowship, 1988-89.
Work selected, "The Best American Poetry 1993" (eds. Louise Gluck & David Lehman), and "The Best American Movie Writing 2001" (eds. John Landis & Jason Shinder).